Quotes

Take away love and earth is a tomb - Robert Browning

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more - Oscar Wilde

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the

lesson - Anon

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them

into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is

dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Wear your learning like a watch, in a private pocket:

and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have

one. - Earl of Chesterfield

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to

win. - Jonathan Kozol

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept

anything but the best, you very often get it.- Somerset Maugham

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has

to eat them.- Adlai E. Stevenson

"It takes a genius to whine appealingly." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your

private heart is true for all men - that is genius."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Diaraeli

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the

opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

"To see things in the seed, that is genius."- Lao-Tzu

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it everyday, and at last we cannot

break it. - Anon

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness - Chinese proverb

To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. -

Theophile Gautier

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon Bonaparte

What lies ahead of you and what lies behind you is nothing compared to

what lies within you. - Mahatma Gandhi

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of

more. - Ayn Rand

Nothing is more stressful than trying to be a different person than who

you are. - Anon

Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere

nearby. - Ruth E. Renkei

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Appius Claudius

" Our doubts are traitors,

And make us lose the good that we oft may win,

By fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare

There are those who see an opportunity

And then there are those who SEIZE an opportunity!"

- Joanie Warren

" Be brave. Even if you're not pretend to be.

No one can tell the difference."

- H. Jackson Brown

" Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel

appreciated."

- Unknown

" One's true character is most transparent

When placed in a position of power."

- Brian G. Jett

" The vision of a champion is someone who is

Bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion,

When nobody else is watching."

- Anson Dorrance

Anything in life that is worthwhile will always cost you an effort."

- Anon

" Look on the brighter side of life,

" You can live your life one of three ways:

Looking back and hating,

Looking back and crying,

Or looking back and laughing.

The first two keep you looking back.

The last one helps you move forward."

" Once a job is begun

Never leave it until it is done;

Be the labor great or small

Do it well or not at all."

--- Anon

" To achieve happiness in your life,

You need to know only three things:

What you want,

What you're prepared to give up to get it,

How to keep your balance in the process."

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,

By each let this be heard,

Some do it with a bitter look,

Some with a flattering word,

The coward does it with a kiss,

The brave man with a sword!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm" - Abraham

Lincoln

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its

nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants.

Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one." -Ben Franklin

The old law about "an eye for an eye" leaves everybody blind." -Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr.

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. " -John F. Kennedy

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so

long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for

us." -Helen Keller

"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave

gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and

unique." -Anon

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

-Oscar Wilde

"We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower

that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense

unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every

language is silent and holds its peace in impotence." -Joseph Roux

"Avarice, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all

on fire." -Dante Alighieri

"Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good

things that happen to you on a piece of marble." -Arabic Parable

"Fear less, hope more;

Whine less, breathe more;

Talk less, say more;

Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours."

-Swedish Proverb

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

-Anon.

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold

well." -Josh Billings

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some

blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a

spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson